Corede Missões: Avaliação da transparência nos portais eletrônicos das prefeituras Municipais e sua relação com indicadores socioeconômicos

Abstract

The information access regulating laws allied to the technology are enabling, more and more, an increase of communication between government and society regarding to the municipalities participation on public affairs and political decision making. Deriving out of this premise, the following study aimed to investigate the level of transparency, measured by Transparent Brazil Scale (EBT), on digital portals of 25 city halls that embody the Regional Council of Missões/RS Development (COREDE Missões/RS), as well as the relation of transparency and socioeconomic indexes. The research is classified as a descriptive search and quantitative approach. Regarding to the data collection, first, digital portals from the municipalities of COREDE Missões/RS were analyzed on what concerns to the level of obedience of the Information Access Law (LAI) through the EBT. Afterwards, the passive transparency was analyzed through digital information access requests. Results present a ranking configuration, on which the first places belongs to the municipalities of Cerro Largo, Santo Antônio das Missões and São Paulo das Missões, by virtue of complying with all the requested prerogatives. The last place belongs to the municipality of Guarani das Missões, once its site has not an e-sic, Ombudsman and Contact Us, precluding, therefore, any possibility of contact with the city hall through digital portal. Thereafter, a comparison of results was developed with the studies of Santos (2017). After all, it was verify a possible relation between the socioeconomic indexes and the level of transparency indicated on the municipalities’ digital portals, by the correlation of Spearman. Results point a significant relation, of average and positive effect, between the transparence evidenced and the population indicators and total revenue collected. In conclusion, it is notice that the investigated municipalities present low levels of digital transparency, especially regarding to the passive transparency.